Spirit (Kermode) Bear Ready to Head Back Into The Forest
This is a Spirit Bear in the vicinity of Hartley Bay, British Columbia.
Our native guide, Marven Robinson, says that this bear is named Strawberry, due to her coloring (I guess?).
Anyway, she has strolled down the shoreline (feasting on Salmon carcasses) and is now starting to head up a small river to fish for spawning Salmon, or simply for more recent Salmon carcasses, as her mood suits her.
We were asked to not give specific locations of the Spirit Bears which were shown to us by Marven and we will respect that request.
However, if you'd like a view of what experiencing the bears was like back in 2016, there is a very nice little book that tells you much more about the Spirit Bear viewing experience that is available on Amazon and which has an accompanying SmugMug website that shows pics and videos of Spirit Bears in action.
I bought a copy of the book ("Spirit Bear Hartley Bay") after we returned from our recent trip and it's very illuminating with regards to what it was like to interact with the Spirit Bears a decade ago.
It's changed a bit since then, not for the worse nor the better, but it has changed, as the Bears that were around a decade ago have moved on and the younger Bears are not quite as habituated to visiting photographers as the old Bears were. I'm told that the years that this trip was not offered (during the Covid pandemic) may have caused a slight regression in the "tame-ness or habituation" of both the Black and White Kermode Bears towards people.
There is an online copy of Spirit Bear Hartley Bay at this link.
Spirit (Kermode) Bear Ready to Head Back Into The Forest
This is a Spirit Bear in the vicinity of Hartley Bay, British Columbia.
Our native guide, Marven Robinson, says that this bear is named Strawberry, due to her coloring (I guess?).
Anyway, she has strolled down the shoreline (feasting on Salmon carcasses) and is now starting to head up a small river to fish for spawning Salmon, or simply for more recent Salmon carcasses, as her mood suits her.
We were asked to not give specific locations of the Spirit Bears which were shown to us by Marven and we will respect that request.
However, if you'd like a view of what experiencing the bears was like back in 2016, there is a very nice little book that tells you much more about the Spirit Bear viewing experience that is available on Amazon and which has an accompanying SmugMug website that shows pics and videos of Spirit Bears in action.
I bought a copy of the book ("Spirit Bear Hartley Bay") after we returned from our recent trip and it's very illuminating with regards to what it was like to interact with the Spirit Bears a decade ago.
It's changed a bit since then, not for the worse nor the better, but it has changed, as the Bears that were around a decade ago have moved on and the younger Bears are not quite as habituated to visiting photographers as the old Bears were. I'm told that the years that this trip was not offered (during the Covid pandemic) may have caused a slight regression in the "tame-ness or habituation" of both the Black and White Kermode Bears towards people.
There is an online copy of Spirit Bear Hartley Bay at this link.